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Why Big Data is the booster shot the healthcare industry needs
Big Data solutions can help the health care industry acquire, organise and analyse data to optimise resource allocation, plug inefficiencies, reduce cost of treatment, improve access to health care and advance medicinal research.
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- Health Care
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M&A Activity Set To Increase In Africa’s Health Sector
Mumbai-based pharmaceutical major Lupin Ltd.'s buyout of the remaining 40 percent equity stake in South Africa’s generic drug maker Pharma Dynamics at undisclosed amount last week shed light on other potential windfalls for Africa’s health-care investors.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uptake Boost for African e-Health Startups
African healthcare providers are gradually recognising the convenience and cost benefits of adopting patient portals integrating financial and clinical data, according to Frost & Sullivan, giving a boost to a number of startups operating in the e-health sector.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Using Mobile Technology to Improve Maternal Health and Fight Ebola: A Case Study of Mobile Innovation in Nigeria
Today, many emerging countries struggle to provide basic health care to their citizens. And the lack of quality maternal, infant and child care has a devastating impact in these areas. Yet medical practitioners, government agencies, and private industry are beginning to learn how mobile technology can be harnessed to develop and inspire solutions to aid the health of people and nations.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Accenture, Amref to Improve mHealth in Africa
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and the Accenture Foundations have awarded Amref Health Africa an additional grant of US$3 million to help the organization enhance and scale its mobile health training program to 3,000 community health workers in Kenya. This grant brings Accenture’s direct support to Amref Health Africa to more than US$7.3 million since 2005.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ebola’s low-down on high tech
Advanced equipment has been developed to help protect health-care workers, but the gear may not be helpful in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation makes its biggest-ever equity investment in German biotech
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it would invest $52 million in CureVac, a German biotechnology company that develops vaccines and immunotherapies, marking the foundation's biggest-ever equity investment.
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- Health Care
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OPINION: Here’s Why Global Health is So Exciting
Two examples provide clues to how technology is paving the way to tackle big healthcare problems globally.
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- Education, Health Care
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